In addition to voice connectivity, digital cellular wireless networks such as GSM and its enhancement, GSM-EDGE, can now provide increased data speeds up to a (theoretical) limit of 384Kbps. Third generation mobile networks, such as CDMA2000 and WCDMA or UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Standards) and TDSCDMA...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
CCS C Compilers for PIC® MCU and dsPIC® DSC V4.1xx
This whitepaper includes the ANSI compliance matrix and includes the sub sections enviornment and language. For each of the variables it is categorised whether there has been full compliance, compliance except for noted item or if it has not been implemented. ...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
The Internet of Things (IoT) has nearly eclipsed the splendor of “big data”—in fact, it’s enveloping big data into a much larger, more promising concept. And to prepare for IoT, companies in all sectors must build a connected device strategy that makes sense—from both a financial and logistical...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Designers are implementing a wide variety of interface bridging solutions that allow them to transfer data across protocols and, in the process, expand system functionality. The challenge is determining how to most efficiently implement these new bridging solutions without violating system power, footprint and cost requirements....
Published: Jul 19, 2018
There are currently two common approaches to PFC inrush current protection. Such protection caters only for the first instance of power application at the switching on of the AC power.
Faced with higher customer demand and expectations towards higher stability in power supply systems, a new concept is conceived that...
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Rohde & Schwarz launched with the R&S ESU the world's first commercial EMI test receiver capable of time domain scans. The EMI test receiver family R&S ESR does also support time domain scans and delivers even faster measurements.
Taking the R&S ESR EMI test receiver as an example, this paper examines...
Published: Sep 08, 2020
Although it has been with us in some form and under different names for many years, the Internet of Things (IoT) is suddenly the next big thing. The ability to connect, communicate with, and remotely manage an incalculable number of networked, automated devices via the Internet is becoming pervasive, from the commercial...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
This paper will focus on the industrial use of public standard IEEE 802.11 technology while providing a broad comparison of different spread spectrum wireless technologies currently deployed in industrial automation applications.
Sometimes called Wi-Fi, WLAN, and Wireless Ethernet, devices based on IEEE 802.11 standards...
Published: Jul 25, 2018
When tasked with developing the 4th generation 650 V rated Field Stop (FS) Trench IGBTs, Fairchild’s engineers had a high bar to overcome to develop a successor to the successful 3rd generation IGBTs. To meet their design goals for achieving higher performance without sacrificing reliability or ruggedness, the design...
Published: Jul 20, 2018
Utilizing embedded microcontrollers for industrial applications requires special attention given the harsh and noisy environment. Going from a supply voltage as low as +1.5V or +3.3V to the +24V industrial world requires careful design decisions and dedicated solutions to achieve safe and reliable operation.
The following...
Published: Jan 21, 2019
Ask system designers to list the problems they face – it doesn’t matter whether they’re building mobile consumer, automotive, industrial, medical or scientific applications – and inevitably they’ll mention optimizing host processor performance. It’s hardly surprising. The event-driven...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
In the automotive market as in all industries, competition breeds innovation. Over the last 100 years, this truth has transformed the horseless carriage into one of the most useful and ubiquitous tools in the modern world. Automobiles have long been understood as mechanical devices, but recently, continuing innovation...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
Lattice Semiconductor has developed a display interface in the MachXO2 PLD family. Because this interface is now supported in MachXO2 devices, designers have an even lower cost and very low power alternative to implement embedded displays.
This whitepaper provides an overview of this display standard and explain...
Published: Jul 19, 2018
Advanced modeling techniques centric to motor and power stage dynamics can yield significant gains in motor control efficiency, assuring precise control that adapts to fluctuations in system behavior in real time.
Through the application of sensorless vector control, designers can enhance the performance and lower...
Published: Jul 23, 2018